Hercules Langrishe
1729 – 1811
Hercules Langrishe was a lifelong friend of Edmund Burke and wrote about American independence and local self-government.
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Hercules Langrishe presented a formidable figure to the advocates of administration because he was himself fluent in both the idioms of finance and politics and understood the analogous relationship of Ireland and the American colonies to England’s parliament. He was a lifelong friend of Edmund Burke, but chose to remain in Ireland, serving as a member of the Irish Parliament from Knocktopher. As such, he was intimately aware of and sympathetic to demands for local self-government.
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